Cutting and Collecting a Crop

The process of cutting and collecting a crop is known as harvesting.

It can be done manually and mechanically. Manual method includes the cutting of crop plants using a sickle. The mechanical method involves using a machine called harvester.

After harvesting, the grains are separated from the chaff. This process is called threshing. The crop plants are beaten against a hard surface or the crop is spread on the ground and cattle are made to walk on it. In this way the grains are separated from their seed coat. Winnowing is used by small scale farmers. The lighter husk particles are carried away by wind and grains are separated. Now a days threshing is done by a machine called “combine” which is capable of harvesting and threshing.